Map Crashing Problem - New Issue Not Seen on Forum

[cpl_42]

Hi Everyone,

I have a problem that I can not find an answer to after going through the pages on this forum and the PepperMill forums. Hope someone can throw some tips my way.

I'm not a nube to map editing, but new to BF2Editor. Last week I created my first BF2 map following the EA Tutorials and it worked great, but with no ingame map for the HUD, startup music, combat area, artillery, UAV, radar etc.

Then I followed some of the tutorials on the Pepper Mill site, from a link I got off of this site.

I have a small 256 low res map which was working and then I:

- added artillery to both sides
- added UAV to both sides
- added radar stations to both sides
- created a combat area
- used the Height Map Generator (per tutorial on peppermill)
- surrounding terrain on all sides that I've painted,
- added the mini-map, (using photoshop to edit the photo down)
- added the commander's map (using photoshop to edit the photo down)
- added music on the load up screen. (in ogg vorbis format using Sound Forge 8 to edit and create the .ogg file)
- edited the .desc file to reflect changes to sound location.
- cleared the light maps folder and generated new lightmaps for low res, and trace terrain but not objects. and texture size of 2048.
- saved all, exited, backed up my levels folder
- relaunched and ran the Mod Package utility and then exited the game.
- isolated everything except the Info, Server and Client files.


Problem: When I go to load the map, the minimap doesn't show up, the sound doesn't play and when the map is done loading and it says "Verifying" it crashed back to the desktop.

Any ideas as to why the map may be crashing?

What may I need to go back and clear/redo? I'll keep hunting but wanted to post here before spending 2 hours troubleshooting this.

Thanks in advance,

CPL_42

[Karate hand]

Re: Map Crashing Problem - New Issue Not Seen on Forum

have u tried window mode, to do this go to proptties on the bf2 shortcut and change the last 1 to 0 then click OK this will show some errors and is helpful wehn mapping,

with custom sound, u must make sure u have the correct path writing, ie, if no music, that means ur path is typed wrong, most likly.

with outer tearrain, i see u painted it, by any chance did u change the height on the outer terrain, ie, i mean did u make hills and stuff on the edges of the map, cos in most cases if have make mountains and hills around the edges of the map u will find an error there

i dont know any think about height renderators, cant help their.

[cpl_42]

Re: Map Crashing Problem - New Issue Not Seen on Forum

have u tried window mode, to do this go to proptties on the bf2 shortcut and change the last 1 to 0 then click OK this will show some errors and is helpful wehn mapping,

--- Not sure what you're talking about here, can you give me the additional argument that I need to add to the ".exe" shortcut so I can activate this?

[QUOTE=with outer tearrain, i see u painted it, by any chance did u change the height on the outer terrain, ie, i mean did u make hills and stuff on the edges of the map, cos in most cases if have make mountains and hills around the edges of the map u will find an error there,
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--- You know, every time I've generated heightmaps, I've reopened the map to find 2 or 3 edges with land that went to the top edge of the map editor for the Y-Axis, but only on the very edge, like it was only 1 pixel deep, and then I had to use the terrain tool to bring it down. The map may not be worth it at this point, but would be nice to know if that's the culprit and what would be causing that?

Thanks,

CPL_42

BTW: Hats off to your Boat Racing Stunts map, I run a software QA test lab and we play BF2 EVERYDAY at 5pm!!! and we play that map almost all the time but not in stunt mode, any chance you'll ever put artillery and UAV in and balance the flags? We just play it as Team DeathMatch with flags. I thought about putting in to test maps for you, but I haven't posted on here 100 times yet. But if you want us to try your maps for you we're professional bug writers who can do it for you.

[Karate hand]

Re: Map Crashing Problem - New Issue Not Seen on Forum

heres a link to a shortcut for bf2 in window mode, so back up urs in save place and use this one http://www.savefile.com/files/6830475

using this will allow u to see if bugs come up, if they do write them down or screen shot it in fraps,

cool, im glad u liked boat racing stunts, its funny u askabout some changes, as in last 4 weeks i have had 5 different people ask if they can edit the map, lol, but couldnt work out how to to it so i helped them out, rofl,
i guess i could add some arty around the map, i would change some of the CP names too,